Thousands of North Korean troops followed by artillery and tanks paraded through Pyongyang Sunday as the country celebrated its 70th birthday, but it refrained from displaying the intercontinental ballistic missiles.

North Korea has held a major parade a day before the opening of the Winter Olympics in the South, in a clear warning to the United States that any act of invasion would be met with the toughest response possible.

Iran’s naval forces staged a maritime parade in the Sea of Oman, marking the end of large-scale naval drills in the country's southern waters where they successfully hit and destroyed mock enemy targets.